Mankind is now caught up, as though in a train of gears, at the heart of a continually accelerating vortex of self-totalisation - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

To the cosmic corpuscles we should find it natural to attribute an individual radius of action as limited as their dimensions. We find, on the contrary, that each of them can only be defined by virtue of its influence on all around it. Whatever space we suppose it to be in, each cosmic element radiates in it and entirely fills it. However narrowly the heart of an atom may be circumscribed, its realm is co-extensive, at least potentially, with that of every other atom. This strange property we will come across again, even in the human molecule.

You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned

There is a communion with God, and a communion with earth, and a communion with God through earth.